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[Simone 'Karat45' Tagliaferri]

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20070718_Teen_charged_in_brothers_fatal_stabbing.html   
   
4:58 PM (2 hours ago)
Tragedy: Video Game Stabbing Update
from Kotaku by Mike Fahey

policeline.jpgOn Tuesday I wrote about a tragic incident in Pennsylvania involving a 13 year-old boy stabbing his older brother to death over whose turn it was with the video game the two were playing. What wasn't divulged by any of the news sources I had uncovered was what game they were playing. Now the Philadelphia Inquirer (my old hometown paper) has some further information on the subject, and while it doesn't go into specifics, it does explain the lack of video game backlash over the case.

    The two had been playing a sports video game when an argument erupted over who would play the next game, according to Lansdowne Police Chief Daniel J. Kortan Jr. "It was a dispute over the use of a video game," he said.

So it was either a single-player sports game, or the family only owned one controller, which seems implausible for a household with two boys in it.

Not that it is amazingly important, but I'd be interested to know what they were playing. Tony Hawk? Tiger Woods? Either way, the fact that it was a sports game and not an FPS or GTA game tends to support the theory that the younger boy, still being held at a Delaware County prison, was simply one troubled individual. Many of you in the comments section of the first story were asking where the parents were, but what parent would expect their child to kill over a sports franchise?

Also there was some confusion as to how many times the older brother was stabbed, with some papers reporting twice and others only once. I believe the source of the confusion there is that the coroner's report sites the cause of death as a single stab wound to the heart. According to the original story I cited he was stabbed once in the lung and once in the heart. Only the heart wound was fatal, hence the coroner's report indicating a single stab wound.

We'll keep you informed if any more information surfaces.

Tratto da: http://kotaku.com/gaming/tragedy/video-game-stabbing-update-280137.php

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[StM]

"Many of you in the comments section of the first story were asking where the parents were, but what parent would expect their child to kill over a sports franchise?"

This misses the point

Perché un bambino uccida per giocare, non importa a quale gioco, vuol dire che i genitori non c'erano proprio per il cazzo.

[Joe]

Il fatto è che vogliono far notare, giustamente, che non si uccide perchè si gioca a GTA e si impersona un poco di buono, si uccide perchè si hanno problemi di mente. Il genitore medio pensa questo invece, e non si aspetta che giocare a FIFA possa portare a una tragedia.